Thursday, December 31, 2009

Tamimis / Safeway grocery store

Tamimi / Safeway market is probably the most popular grocery store amongst the westerners (non scientific findings). They airship lots of products, so one has access to many "comfort foods". Yesterday, I even saw Whatchamacallits, boy that took me back a few years.


Most of the pics include the price at the bottom of the photo. The prices are in Saudi riyals and can be converted to dollars by dividing by 3.75 and the answer is the amount in dollars. For example one box of imp0rted cereal is about 22 sar. So we take the 22 /3.75 = $5.87. Quite expensive, so you pay for that convenience and access.


International Products
See the turkeys at the bottom?
Cranberry sauce? What season are they referring to?
WOW! This takes me back.




What's a good ol' American breakfast without hash browns?

Yummy!!!
Even more yummy!!!

Yummiest!!!

Here's a video of the bakery section at one of the Tamimi / Safeway market



http://wikimapia.org/943029/Tamimi-Markets
http://www.al-tamimi.com/co_smarket.html

Monday, December 28, 2009

Switching out the "gas"



This is video of the gas guy replacing the cylinders. In general, one cylinder may last my family about 2 to 3 months. It only costs 15 Saudi riyals to replace. There are shops like this one spread throughout the city and this one carries gas cylinders, bottled water (5 gallons) and bottled soda (the old school ones in glass bottles with the metal tops).
Oops! Video begins upside.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

MESA 2nd Annual 3on3 B-Ball Tournament


MESA presents the 2nd Annual 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament.

- Date: Dec 30th - Jan 1st

- Location: Kingdom Schools Basketball Courts

- Exit 5, North Ring Rd - King AbdulAziz St.- Registration Fee: SR100 per player (maximum 4 players per team)

- Age Divisions: 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-19, Adult

- Every player receives a MESA Jersey

Register by visiting us at Kingdom Schools Sports Hall every day after 4pm; deadline is December 29th

...Spread the word!!!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Kingdom Schools & MESA OPEN Football Tournament

Info from: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208069546332

We're EXCITED about the Kingdom Schools & MESA OPEN Football Tournament coming up next weekend for all students in Riyadh! Thursday 24th Dec / Friday 25th Dec...

Come out and register with MESA @ the Kingdom Schools Sports Facility every day this week, from 4pm - 10pm a MESA Representative will be available to collect registrations.

Fee: SR100
Every player will receive a MESA football jersey.

1MESA.com

Start Time:
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 9:00am
End Time:
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 10:00pm
Location:
Kingdom Schools, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia